Hivemine's Askme solution addresses the problem of information overload in decision-making by organizing digital information into an accessible knowledge mine, proving effective for Fortune 500 companies. Its use cases demonstrate significant ROI, such as Novartis reducing resources needed by 20%, Boeing achieving $1 million in savings for every 250 engineers, and P&G saving 100 man-years in R&D time. Hivemine, founded in 2011 and headquartered in Seattle, focuses on facilitating easy access to expertise and integrates well with existing systems, enhancing operational decisions and knowledge management.

1. Accelerate Decisions
Company & Product Overview

2. The Problem
! Business strategy lives in
day-to-day operational
decisions.
! Information overload impairs
decision-making.
! Decisions made with limited
information threatens
strategic execution and
exposes the company to risk
and potential compliance
issues.
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3. The Solution
• Hivemine’s AskMe solution is a proven decision
accelerator
• AskMe takes any digital information repository and
organizes it into an accessible knowledge mine.
• AskMe is used by Fortune 500 companies in large
deployments with significant ROI.
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4. AskMe Use Cases
Expertise Identification
Challenge: Novartis needed a one-stop place where R&D, Marketing and
Sales employees around the globe could quickly access information and
expertise.
Solution: Following an extensive evaluation of available solutions, Novartis
selected AskMe for its industry-leading ability to find, access and manage
expertise (people + content + conversations) as a company asset with a
measurable ROI.
Results: 20% reduction in individual country team resources required
through the ability to access expertise assets company-wide.
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5. AskMe Use Cases
Build on Experience
Challenge: With the combined challenge of long-tenured employees
reaching retirement age and an expanding number of programs / locations,
Boeing Commercial Airplanes needed a formal way to capture, document
and leverage employee expertise.
Solution: Boeing migrated from a static viewing solution to AskMe which
provided a means by which employee expertise associated with engineering
drawings could be captured and formally documented as best practices.
Results: The capture of best practices delivered $1M in savings for every
250 engineers.
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6. AskMe Use Cases
Innovation Bridge
Challenge: With R&D centers located across the globe, P&G needed a
means by which scientists working in disparate countries on different
product teams could bridge the gap to explore innovative ideas.
Solution: P&G selected AskMe for its powerful communities of practice
functionality that allowed scientists to connect and engage on both a
functional and organizational basis.
Results: 100 man-years in annual R&D time savings and improved
innovation facilitation leading to two new products – Crest Whitestrips and
Febreze.
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7. AskMe is Easy
! Easy to Use: As easy as using Google.
One-stop access to expertise (people +
content + conversations)
! Easy to Install: Delivered on a pre-
configured network appliance.
! Easy to Adopt: Integrates with existing
applications, data sources, and business
processes.
! Easy to Enhance: Add-on big data
analytics modules to drive even greater
value from expertise resources.
! Easy to Extend: Works with, but not
dependent on SharePoint and other
enterprise social networks.
! Easy to Scale: Organically builds scalable
and reusable knowledge assets.
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8. AskMe Portal
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9. AskMe SharePoint Integration
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10. Business-Ready | Business-Proven
User interface flexibility!
• AskMe Portal
• Microsoft SharePoint
• Microsoft Exchange
• API’s for 3rd party applications
• Multi-interface hybrid
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Data source extensibility!
• Email!
• Microsoft SharePoint!
• Other business systems (i.e. ECM)!
• Enterprise search server
• Other internal/external data sources
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11. Hivemine Corporate Snapshot
! Founded in 2011.
! HQ in Seattle.
! Company focus is on easy access to
expertise to reduce risk and drive results.
! Acquired AskMe software and associated
patents in 2011 to accelerate growth.
! Existing customers include: Boeing, J&J,
Microsoft, Novartis, Pratt & Whitney, PTC,
RW Armstrong, and others.
! Named to KM World’s 2012 list of “100
Companies That Matter in Knowledge
Management.”
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12. Hivemine Vision
! Transparent
• Collect expertise (people + content + conversations) as a by-
product of how people work.
• Make expertise accessible via apps users know and use.
! Focused
• Build and deliver expertise solutions that meet the needs of
knowledge workers.
• Drive business outcomes and measure results.
! Intelligent & Ubiquitous
• Provide a platform to use big data for operational decisions and
solving specific business challenges.
• Easy and secure access to expertise from any location or device.
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13. Accelerate Decisions
Contact:
David Wachter | 206.512.1010 | david.wachter@hivemine.com